Carrots Shantana. Description of the variety. Growing carrots at home

Carrots are a root crop, which contains a whole pharmacy of useful substances. Here and carotene, and other vitamins, trace elements that contribute to the preservation of health. Carrots are indispensable for proper nutrition. It can be grown at home. How is it better to do, which varieties to choose?

Properties of carrots

Carrots are a plant from the umbrella family.

The period of her life is two years. For the first carrot from the seed forms a root crop, which we are accustomed to eating. In the second year, he releases an arrow, which is crowned with a flower in the shape of an umbrella. Seeds are formed there. The next year they can be sown again in the ground.

The composition of carrots is a lot of useful substances. It is especially valued for carotene (vitamin A), which in its composition is more than seventy percent. It is he who stains the root in orange color. This is more than in other vegetables or fruits (except sea-buckthorn). There is also a wide range of vitamins. Useful is its fiber, mineral salts, sugar, essential oil.

Carrots are a unique product. It does not lose its useful properties during processing. To do this, she only needs to interact with fat, vegetable or animal origin.

In addition, all valuable substances are stored when stored in winter.

The range of applications is very wide. A lot of delicious and healthy dishes are prepared using carrots. It is used in dietary nutrition.

Has a positive effect on vision. Improves immunity, normalizes the work of the digestive system. Carrots are irreplaceable in children's food.

It treats beriberi, anemia, bronchitis, heart disease, kidneys, organs of the genitourinary system.

It is very useful for teeth, especially at a young age. After all, for their normal development, chew solid foods. Then the bite is formed correctly.

Useful and aerial parts of the plant. Wiped carrots have long been used to treat burns, various wounds, frostbite. Essential oils obtained from carrot seeds are used in perfumery.

Harm to carrots

Not that you can not use it at all. You just need to limit the use of this product to a peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, prone to diarrhea.

Carrots are useful, but you should not abuse it. After all, the body can not cope with the processing of carotene. Then he will step on the skin. The palms, the feet turn yellow, will acquire a hint of carrots.

Teeth can be colored in orange .

Carrot variety of Shantane

Of course, not all types of carrots have an equal number of nutrients and the same taste qualities.

To evaluate them, do not necessarily nibble. It is enough to look at the root crop. The core should be small (there are varieties in which it is completely absent). The brighter and more saturated the color of carrots, the more delicious. The shape is rounded, a reasonable ratio of length and width. All these standards are fully consistent with carrots Shantane.

Sortan type

It has about two dozen varieties of different maturation periods.

• The Shantana Red Cradd is the most popular of the varieties of this type. Appreciated for high taste.
• Variety Shantane 2461 is intended for sub-winter planting.
• Shantane Comet - medium-early, does not break during cleaning, it is resistant to scab.
• Victoria is a supernatural hybrid of the Sortant type. Very early (80-85 days). Coloring is brighter than in other varieties.
• Hybrid Ablaco F1 - suitable for cooking carrot juice.

Carrots Shantane Royal

Medium-ripening variety.

Mass maturation occurs 100-110 days after emergence. The color of all parts is saturated orange. Root length about 1 5 cm, diameter of each 5 cm. Weight 200 g. The shape is conical, the tip is blunt. The plant is vertical. This facilitates the care and harvesting. The fruits are even, do not have lateral roots.

Juicy, sweet. Carrot Shantane Royal can be used both freshly immediately after harvesting, and in processing products. It is well kept for a long time in the winter. Has a good shelf life. The variety is transportable.

Carrots of Kuroda Shantane variety

Those who sell young carrots (on a bun) or like to crunch in the summer with young fruits, like carrots Kuroda Shantane. This is an early grade. Only two months after the emergence of sprouting, and even earlier, root crops can be harvested for sale. And in three years 70% of the whole harvest is ready. Selling it is easy, because the roots have an attractive look. Length 20 cm, color bright orange, small core. It is unpretentious in cultivation. It feels good even on heavy soils. It transfers heat, almost does not shoot, it is resistant to diseases.

Can be sown in the summer. If this is done at the end of July, the fruits from personally stored until May.

Use both fresh and recycled.

Cultivation of carrots

Growing carrots at home requires attention and some effort. First you need to prepare the site.

It should not have perennial weeds. They are chosen with the help of a shovel, forks or a plane cutter. After all, the shoots remain very small and tender for a long time. Therefore, it is difficult to fight strong weed sprouts without damaging carrots.

Carrots are grown on a bed, where cabbage, onions, potatoes, cucumber grew up before. It is not necessary to plant after parsley, dill, parsnip.

Sow better early, at a soil temperature of 8 degrees Celsius so that the soil does not dry up. Then shoots will be amicable. But first you need to prepare varieties of carrot seeds. They are soaked for a day in water, then dried to the point where they do not stick together, but still wet. In order to facilitate the seeding process, seeds after soaking are mixed with sand. In this state, the moist mixture can be left to germinate.

This process is accelerated if the seeds are pre-placed for several days on a cloth impregnated with a growth stimulator (for example, succinic acid, sodium humate). Sowing at a depth of 1 cm, always in moist soil. If it is dry, then it can be sown under irrigation. To do this, ready-made rows are poured from the watering can. Wait until the water is absorbed. Once again loosen the soil to make it crumbly, and sow the seeds. The distance between the rows is 20 cm. Seedlings will appear in two to three weeks, after treatment with a growth stimulant - a week later.

It is better to sow winter storage from the middle of April to the end of May.

Carrot Shantana will not grow quality in the shade. Therefore, you need to make sure that the crops are well illuminated by the sun. Necessarily need to thin out the crops. Each carrot should be provided with a place for food and air passage. Otherwise it will be shallow. Thin carrots are thin in the stage of two real leaves. The distance between the plants is 4 cm. After weeding, pour the remaining carrots, compact the soil around the plants. A torn plants need to be removed, since their smell attracts a carrot fly.

Growing carrots at home allows you to determine the plant's planting site. To prevent this pest from settling on crops, it is necessary to plant a bow nearby, which frightens off this insect. And the carrots themselves should not be sown in one place before three or four years. If this is done more often, the quality of the products deteriorates and the risk of diseases and injuries to aphids, nematodes, carrot flies increases.

Sowing for the winter

Carrot Shantana, like a two-year-old plant, is not afraid of frosts. Therefore, it can be sown in autumn. But you need to do this before freezing so that the seeds do not germinate. The seeding rate should be increased by 25%.

Primer is pre-fertilized with humus, ash, superphosphate. In winter, in the place where carrots are sown, it is advisable to apply an additional layer of snow. This will help moisten the site.

Podzimniy sowing allows much earlier, for two or three weeks, to get a young carrot. But for a long time it will not be stored if the variety is ordinary, not a hybrid.

Fertilizing crops

Not suitable for carrots habitual fertilizer, suitable for plants with terrestrial fruits. After all, root crops, having absorbed everything that fell with them in the soil, will bring it to us on the table. It is best to prepare a mixture of superphosphate with legumes, ciderates, and beetroot. All this mix, pour water and put on fermentation.

If the soil on the site where you are going to sow the carrots is sour, then from the autumn on it you need to make chalk or lime. In the spring add urea, wood ash. And you can sow carrots Shantana.

Customer Reviews

Almost all of them note the excellent taste qualities that Carrot Shantane possesses.

It is indicated that the juice from it is obtained much more than from the same amount of Nantskaya variety. It is pleasant to users, that carrots Шантане it is well saved and does not lose the flavoring qualities.